The only solutions that I know of are: 1. Satellite. I have not looked at satellite for a number of years. At one time, there was a satellite company that was pretty decent and had an agreement with Dish Network, but that agreement ended in litigation, and the 2 people I knew with their service became rather unhappy. 2. Microwave. My former boss at Compaq, has a home in South Carolina, and gets his Internet connectivity via microwave. Additionally, a friend in Nebraska whose wife is a physician also has microwave. However, I don't know if there are any providers up north.
In general, satellite costs about twice that of cable, and while the company I referred to was at one time Linux-friendly, because of the litigation et. al., they started to cut out some things, and may not be Linux friendly any longer. On 06/22/2009 05:03 AM, Brian Chabot wrote: > This is going to sound odd, but I have a friend who lives in the boonies > who only has an analog phone line for internet access and word has it > they won't have broadband (or most cell signals) for a couple more years. > > I was wondering if anyone here might know of an affordable, stand-alone > device which would server as an analog modem on one side and ethernet or > wifi on the other? > > The idea is to set their house up with a LAN where either their main > computer or a laptop could use the device as a dial-on-demand access > device and a router to the outside world while connected. > > I'm trying to see if something can be set up so as not to have to use > any one computer as the router... > -- Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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